
Norine Kennedy
Senior Vice President, Global Strategy and United Nations Affairs, USCIB
Executive Director, The USCIB Foundation
In her policy leadership role, Kennedy oversees USCIB’s sustainability practice, which brings together USCIB’s environmental, labor and corporate responsibility advocacy. Based in New York, she also spearheads USCIB’s strategic international engagement, which advances inclusive multilateralism and promotes meaningful business participation in international policy deliberations as essential to effective outcomes.
Kennedy is a recognized business diplomat across influential inter-governmental institutions. She currently serves as co-chair of the Business and Industry Major Group (B&IMG) to the UN in New York and has led USCIB’s All In and Moving the Needle initiatives.
With 30+ years experience in sustainable development, environment, energy and climate change, Kennedy has represented U.S. business at the UN Rio, Johannesburg, and Rio+20 sustainability conferences, at all Conferences of the Parties of the UN Climate Convention (COP) and at the UN High Level Political Forum (HLPF).
She is a U.S. citizen and holds degrees from Wellesley College and the Claremont Graduate School.